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Speaker 1: And what's up, guys. Welcome in late Cake on the air.

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Speaker 1: It is Sunday night. It is August twenty fourth, the

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Speaker 1: year of our Lord, twenty twenty. It's not Nashville. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: once again, right here, coming to you from the parents'

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Speaker 1: living room in forts and, Georgia, just north of Columbus.

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Speaker 1: I frequently refer to Columbus as my hometown. Ish. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people from Harris County get mad because they

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Speaker 1: and that's where I am right now. We've got a

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Speaker 1: loaded show. This is my favorite kind of show. This

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Speaker 1: is pretty much the kind of show that we'll be

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Speaker 1: And that is the kind of show where we really

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Speaker 1: could go like four hours tonight. We have to whittle

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Speaker 1: it down and we have to filter it down and

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Speaker 1: decide what's really worth talking about. I'll tell you what's

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Speaker 1: really worth talking about as it relates to this show.

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Speaker 1: In the future of this show, We're going to do

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Speaker 1: it at the very end so we can get right

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Speaker 1: down into business. But I put out a little call

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Speaker 1: to action for you guys. This past week about getting

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Speaker 1: us to a certain plateau, a certain milestone, if you will,

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Speaker 1: POI I underestimated you. I underestimated how long it would

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Speaker 1: take you because you did it just like that. So

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Speaker 1: we are changing the format of the show, and I

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Speaker 1: think you'll really really like the news that we have tonight.

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Speaker 1: I got so much to get to look at this,

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Speaker 1: look at the notes. It's stuff everywhere. We've obviously got

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Speaker 1: a lot of whispers and intel from camps all across

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Speaker 1: the country, a lot of stuff going on in the

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Speaker 1: going to give you several landmine games, some different kind

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Speaker 1: of segments that I like to do in the preseason,

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Speaker 1: diving a little bit deeper into the whole schedule analysis world,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to do that with the SEC tonight.

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Speaker 1: I'm also going to take a question from Shane towards

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Speaker 1: Late Cack Live here, and he's asking about and this

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Speaker 1: the whole COVID quarantine. Are we going to have normal?

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Speaker 1: Are we not going to have normal? He brought up

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Speaker 1: a good point. You raised a good question, So I

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Speaker 1: want to revisit that and again at the end of

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Speaker 1: the show, I am going to have Colin. Would we

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Speaker 1: call it a major I'm looking over here, like Collins

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Speaker 1: it a major announcement. Yeah, we got an announcement towards

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Speaker 1: the end of the show. So I am down here.

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Speaker 1: Had a death in the family. Don't really like to

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Speaker 1: get into that all that much, but I'm here in Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Those of you who know what's going on, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your support, and thank everyone for their support period,

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Speaker 1: whether you know about that or not. Driving home the

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Speaker 1: to see. So football returning at least in some shape,

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Speaker 1: Latest whispers and intel out of camp. This is what

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Speaker 1: we do to lead every show, especially during this time

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Speaker 1: of year, just the latest that we're hearing. We've got

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Speaker 1: an entire network of team insiders, the best in the business,

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Speaker 1: start it off. I wanted to go to Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: lot of people have asked us questions about Tennessee, and

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Speaker 1: know the value I'm already talking about. This is not

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Speaker 1: a network where you know, you subscribe to like Auburn

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Speaker 1: Undercover dot com and you only get the Auburn information.

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Speaker 1: and it still is a big name. Now, don't get

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Speaker 1: expectations and all the marquee and whatnot that you give them.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee's roster is better than people think it is. So

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, this is not some game where

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Speaker 1: if I were to tell you, hey, Georgia is going

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Speaker 1: minus level, you'd say, oh, it's okay. They'll still out

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Speaker 1: roster them. They may beat them, but it's not going

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Speaker 1: to be because they just take a roster and lean

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Speaker 1: on Tennessee. You could do that two years ago, you

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Speaker 1: could do it last year, and you'll still have an

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Speaker 1: advantage over them this year, but it's not so wide

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Speaker 1: that you can afford to sleep walk your way through

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Speaker 1: this thing and just sort of survive in advance. I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's the way Tennessee is going to be

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Speaker 1: this year for several noteworthy opponents, including Georgia. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: going to stick with Georgia here and they play Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: We just talked about that. Then they go to Alabama,

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Speaker 1: and then the week after that is their second consecutive

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Speaker 1: road game against Kentucky, I'm going to do. Kentucky will

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Speaker 1: have their own feature we're going to do coming up.

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Speaker 1: Tennessee has a tough schedule, and I talked about their

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Speaker 1: biggest games being in manageable spots. Pales in comparison to Kentucky.

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Speaker 1: Like everyone who covers the SEC, they're trying to make

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Speaker 1: Kentucky a dark course and they're trying to make Kentucky

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Speaker 1: the sleeper pick. And that's great if I were trying

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Speaker 1: to do that in this blue shirt I'm wearing. If

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Speaker 1: By the way, I just look at the schedule, so

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to go down that road right now.

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Speaker 1: But Kentucky's schedule, they play a lot of tough opponents.

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Speaker 1: It's fascinating where all those stuff opponents lie if you

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Speaker 1: believe in certain scheduling dynamics and factors. But let's go

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Speaker 1: to week five. So Georgia's at Kentucky. They just played

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Speaker 1: at Alabama. That's Georgia's super Bowl essentially. Now they go

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Speaker 1: back out on the road and they face Kentucky. So

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Speaker 1: that concludes a string. This game will conclude a string

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Speaker 1: for Georgia by far their toughest of the year where

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Speaker 1: they have gone Auburn, Tennessee at Alabama. That's three high emotional,

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Speaker 1: highly physical games back to back to back, and then

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Speaker 1: they go on the road to play Kentucky. Now this

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Speaker 1: is a game where Georgia can outroster someone. The thing

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Speaker 1: you worry about with Kentucky is not if you bring it,

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Speaker 1: you can play at your B minus level. As long

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Speaker 1: as you're relatively mistake free. You'll be fine if you're Georgia,

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Speaker 1: because you're that good. What I worry about is if

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Speaker 1: this were the twenty twenty version of the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: Carolina game where you turn it over four times your

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Speaker 1: minus four in the turnover battle, and just you don't

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Speaker 1: have your focus, you don't have your fast ball, which

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Speaker 1: would be understandable coming off that three game stretch. What's

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Speaker 1: really dangerous about that with the team like Kentucky is

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Speaker 1: this is obviously their super Bowl and they possess the

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Speaker 1: pretty unique ability to shave possessions off a game. This

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Speaker 1: team right here possesses the ability and total willingness to

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Speaker 1: play ugly, and they can shorten a game on you,

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Speaker 1: and they can lean on you a little bit, especially,

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Speaker 1: you know you're giving the ball to them in addition

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of game that you could be favored

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Speaker 1: by three touchdowns in. And yet someone texts you and

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Speaker 1: it's saying, Hey, you're watching this Georgia game. It's like

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Speaker 1: seventeen to sixteen, early fourth quarter. I don't know what's happening,

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Speaker 1: but you might want to turn over here. And the

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Speaker 1: last one that I wanted to get to another Old

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Speaker 1: Miss game Ole Miss at Auburn or no Ole Miss

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Speaker 1: at Texas A and M. Week nine. Think this one through.

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Speaker 1: This is a little ways out there. These other games

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Speaker 1: week nine, Old Miss going to college station, you trying

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Speaker 1: to picture it with me. I'm a believer that Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M is still going to be alive in

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Speaker 1: the Western Division race and in the college football playoff

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Speaker 1: race at that point. I'm a believer in that. So

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Speaker 1: they survive in advance, they're still in contention, and they

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Speaker 1: and they got LSU coming in next week. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: play Kentucky or we're gonna play Ole Miss. Yeah, Kentucky

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Speaker 1: would be dangerous too. We're gonna play Ole Miss now,

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Speaker 1: Ole Miss. If we're thinking this through, Ole Miss probably

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Speaker 1: not a great record at this point. Ole Miss is

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Speaker 1: probably taken their lumps. But see here's the problem. This

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Speaker 1: game's in week nine. It's not in week one or

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Speaker 1: week two. Week one a week two. It may turn

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Speaker 1: out that they didn't have their stuff together, which is understandable.

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Speaker 1: But Lane Kiffin and that team collectively, they had the

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Speaker 1: we're Texas A and M could be full ambush mode.

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Speaker 1: It's what I'm telling you. That could be Ole Miss's

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Speaker 1: super Bowl game. If you're looking for one of those

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Speaker 1: program definers and the game you can package up and

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Speaker 1: take out on the recruiting trail and sell the kids

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Speaker 1: for a vision of the future, that'd be it. So

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Speaker 1: those are some landmine games to look at in the SEC.

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Speaker 1: We can do those for other conferences too. If you

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Speaker 1: guys are interested, let me know in the comment section

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Speaker 1: the very latest on the college football season. Some of

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Speaker 1: you have really appreciated that we have been keeping you

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Speaker 1: Ten and whatnot and what's being whispered behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: as opposed to what's being reported publicly. And I haven't

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Speaker 1: spent an inordinate amount of time on that on this

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Speaker 1: show because we really like to talk about football on here.

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Speaker 1: But I did want to address several reports out this

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Speaker 1: weekend about the Big Ten athletic directors. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten right now. Most recently this weekend,

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Speaker 1: you saw a report that the Big Ten athletic directors

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Speaker 1: were one hundred percent on board with playing the college

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Speaker 1: football season, fourteen out of fourteen of them, and yet

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Speaker 1: seeing now a pretty concerted effort to get the messaging

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Speaker 1: out there appropriately, And the messaging right now that you're

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Speaker 1: getting if you're just a casual bystander is okay. The

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Speaker 1: football Essentially, the football people wanted to play football and

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Speaker 1: the academic and political people didn't want to play football,

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Speaker 1: And okay, that's all well and good. Well ask yourself why,

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Speaker 1: And I think the answer is obvious. The question is,

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Speaker 1: all right, well, you're not going to get a football

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Speaker 1: season in the fall, So why are these people still talking?

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Speaker 1: Like why is all this noise still happening? Because just

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Speaker 1: because you're not going to get a season in the

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Speaker 1: fall doesn't mean you're brethren to the east, west or

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Speaker 1: south may not get a season in the fall. As

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Speaker 1: I've told you, you have not cleared the biggest hurdle,

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Speaker 1: yet the biggest question mark still remains. If everyone else

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Speaker 1: cancels their season, this is totally forgotten and maybe you're

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Speaker 1: even looked at as a group of visionaries up there,

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Speaker 1: led by Kevin Warren, currently embattled Big Ten commissioner. However, if,

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Speaker 1: as we have spoken about many times now, the seasons

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Speaker 1: get off the ground elsewhere, then everyone wants to have

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Speaker 1: gone on the record as much as possible, and everyone

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Speaker 1: wants to have stayed their case. And if you're an

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Speaker 1: or parents of players or players themselves, you want to

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Speaker 1: and you want that flag to say we wanted to play.

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Speaker 1: We were in the we want to play crowd. You

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be any of the ads because

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Speaker 1: now we all know, hey, they were on board for play,

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Speaker 1: and the head coaches mostly on board for playing as

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Speaker 1: far as we know, parents certainly in mass have been

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Speaker 1: and I'm not so sure I disagree with it. It was

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Speaker 1: a political decision. And keep in mind, this is if

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Speaker 1: other conferences got the seasons off the ground and successfully completed.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking about December. If we're looking at that

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Speaker 1: being the case in December, people are going to rightfully

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Speaker 1: look back on this and say, well, you obviously didn't

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Speaker 1: adjust accordingly with the data moving around day by day,

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Speaker 1: So you politicized this. So if heads are going to roll,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be ours because we're football people

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Speaker 1: and you non football types you're the ones who cost

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Speaker 1: us the season. The other and I'm just kind of

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Speaker 1: jumping around here to address several things. The other thing

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Speaker 1: I want you to pay attention to is Nick Saban,

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Speaker 1: of all people down in the SEC, was the latest

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Speaker 1: what a lot of us believe, and that is a

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Speaker 1: fall or a spring rather college football season would largely

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Speaker 1: be a joke. He referred to it as something that

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Speaker 1: would look like a JV product. Maybe a little harsh,

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Speaker 1: but I agree with it. I have yet to find

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Speaker 1: someone I would tell you if I had found otherwise.

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Speaker 1: I have yet defined anyone up to and including coaches themselves,

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Speaker 1: who think that a spring product is going to be viable.

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Speaker 1: They don't think people are going to play. They think

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Speaker 1: that there could be a knee jerk reactionary measure by

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Speaker 1: be drafted high to not play in the spring. You've

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Speaker 1: already told them they're going to keep the scholarships, they're

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Speaker 1: going to have a year of eligibility added on. A

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Speaker 1: lot of them may look around and say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: place us in the spring. Y'all have at it. I'll

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Speaker 1: be back here in the fall. I'll be back in

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Speaker 1: the You are definitely not putting me on this field

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Speaker 1: twice in the calendar year for two seasons, not doing it,

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Speaker 1: so no one believes that they'll be a viable spring season.

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Speaker 1: That's why there's so many loopholes, Like there's so many

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Speaker 1: holes just period in the spring argument. The reason is

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Speaker 1: don't care what they're saying right now. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I hope they pull it off. Obviously, I'd love to

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Speaker 1: respect to National Signing Day. I'd love to be talking

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Speaker 1: about Ohio State's upcoming trip to Happy Valley, but that

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Speaker 1: is not thought to be viable by a lot of

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Speaker 1: people now. At Chip Brown two shout outs in the

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, very dialed in in the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve is Chip Brown. If you are subscribed to the

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Speaker 1: twenty four seven Sports YouTube channel, you probably saw us

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Speaker 1: drop an emergency edition of the Texas Flagship podcast on

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Speaker 1: the channel Friday. Chip Brown sent us a message, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I got Bob Bowlsby. Are we interested in that Big

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Speaker 1: twelve Commissioner, Bob Bowlsby, I got it for an exclusive interview. Yeah, Chip,

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Speaker 1: we're interested in that. Go ahead and drop that in

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Speaker 1: here for us. So I uploaded it onto the channel

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Speaker 1: and Bob Bowlesby gave a number of updates. I would

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Speaker 1: strongly recommend you go listen to that. But Bob Bolesby

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Speaker 1: the season in in the fall, this is the Big

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Speaker 1: twelve commissioner talking. If I said Big ten, I'm at

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Speaker 1: Big twelve, this is the Big twelve commissioner talking. He said,

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Speaker 1: if we don't get this thing in in the fall,

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Speaker 1: kind of don't think the Big twelve spring season would

646
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Speaker 1: be feasible either. And that's the actual LEA commissioner talking there.

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Speaker 1: And he also spoke at length about how much they're

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Speaker 1: in contact with each other in the various Power five conferences.

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Speaker 1: Do you have to have everyone in, could you go rogue,

650
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: could you go individual really really good listen if you

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Speaker 1: want to take a few minutes. And also, you know,

652
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Speaker 1: I was just trying to reach out and kind of

653
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Speaker 1: get people's updated opinion, if you will, in various different arenas,

654
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:30,479
Speaker 1: some coaches, some doctors, some administrators, if you'll notice data,

655
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: you know, things that you really should be valuing if

656
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Speaker 1: you're going to make an informed decision on this stuff.

657
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: It changes every day. And so what I have found

658
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest complaints that I've heard from some

659
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Speaker 1: people inside the industry, so to speak, of college football

660
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: is there's this growing frustration that opinions have been formed

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Speaker 1: one way or the other, like should we play, should

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Speaker 1: we not play? Opinions seem to have been formed two

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Speaker 1: months ago with no willingness to adjust on both sides,

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Speaker 1: and it was born out. Really A lot of people

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00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: pointed this out to me in the Big Ten's final

666
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Speaker 1: statement that they released Kevin Warren's official statement about why

667
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Speaker 1: they weren't playing this year kind of in response to

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Speaker 1: the Big Ten parents, and they talked about growing cases

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Speaker 1: and I forget the exact terminology, but the statements and

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Speaker 1: the reasoning put in the Big Ten's release did not

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Speaker 1: align with data. Had you released that statement a month

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: and a half ago, the point is it would have

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Speaker 1: aligned with current data. So it reaked of an opinion

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Speaker 1: that was formed a couple of months ago that would

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Speaker 1: have at that point married up with what reality and

676
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Speaker 1: data said. That does not necessarily pass the smell test. Now,

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Speaker 1: so again I agree with that. I can definitely see

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Speaker 1: the merit. But what I'm telling you is that's not

679
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 1: me bringing that to you. That's me being a conduit

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00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: bringing it to you from a lot of people behind

681
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Speaker 1: the scenes in the college football world. So the final thing,

682
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Speaker 1: a lot of you messaged me about this, and I'm

683
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Speaker 1: not going to do it, but a lot of you

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00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: message me asking me about people in the sports media

685
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: world who seem to be rooting against college football. I

686
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Speaker 1: know what you're talking about. I'm not going down that road.

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Speaker 1: What I would encourage you to do is no different

688
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 1: than I encourage people this time every year to do.

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Speaker 1: It's just that I'm normally talking about college football predictions.

690
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,800
Speaker 1: In this case, I'm talking about something else. Do yourself

691
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: a favor if you want to decide who's credible and

692
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: who's not. Do yourself a favor. Write down every prediction

693
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: that you hear. Write down every bold statement that you

694
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: hear anyone, including me, make this time of year. Write

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00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: it down, Put it in a drawer somewhere. If someone's

696
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: talking about who's going to win the Big Twelve, or

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00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: if someone's talking about or why there shouldn't be a

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Speaker 1: college football season, write it down, save the link, put

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Speaker 1: it in a drawer somewhere, forget about it, and then

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Speaker 1: come back to it in December. You'll find out who's credible,

701
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: and you'll find out who is just baiting you for

702
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 1: clicks in the summer, hoping that, unlike how they are

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00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 1: able to do with coaches who fail, they won't be

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00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: held accountable for what they say. I'm always cognizant of this.

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Speaker 1: That's why you very rarely see me go into hot

706
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: take mode, if ever on this show. And we as

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00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: you've also noticed, we haven't made predictions on this show yet.

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Speaker 1: I like to gather as much information as possible, So

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Speaker 1: when I give you a prediction on this show, it's

710
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: well thought out. It may not always pan out, but

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00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: it'll be well thought out. All right, let's wrap it

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Speaker 1: up with a question from Shane, really good one here.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were talking a second ago about data

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Speaker 1: and how it changes and how maybe an opinion that

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Speaker 1: was valid two months ago maybe invalid two months later.

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Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, I stated on this show

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Speaker 1: that I thought hot season or hot seat season would

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Speaker 1: be kind of non existent this year for a number

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Speaker 1: of reasons. So let's get into that. Shane asks, do

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Speaker 1: you still believe most head coaches are going to be

721
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: immune from the hot seat even if someone like Will

722
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: muss Champ goes two to eight this year. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, general consensus was and still is,

724
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, that football revenue was

725
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:11,840
Speaker 1: going to be down this year. Nothing is normal. Everyone's

726
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: been thrown for a loop. You've got unprecedented challenges. So

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Speaker 1: even if we were planning on firing a head coach,

728
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: we can't do it. Optics alone would just be terrible.

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00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: It would be a nightmare. So that football revenue being

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Speaker 1: down being one of the key instigators here and kind

731
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Speaker 1: of hitting the pause button. But point was and still is,

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Speaker 1: most people think that you won't have many head coaches

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Speaker 1: being fired unless they're fired for scandal, for like cause

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Speaker 1: related reasons, and a cause is not two and eight.

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Speaker 1: So let's think this through here for a second. Big

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Speaker 1: question is how much does that August logic hold up

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Speaker 1: in December, Because you know that a lot of people

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Speaker 1: say things before anyone's got in their hands dirty and

739
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: anyone's gotten the uniform dirty. A lot of people say

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00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: things that will happen and what they'll do if this happens,

741
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: and what they'll do if that happens. But then you

742
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Speaker 1: go through the heat of battle for ten sec games.

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Speaker 1: If you're will must champ and you come out and

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00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,839
Speaker 1: let's say you do go two and eight, must champ

745
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: at two and eight. Now I can tell you right now,

746
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: as sure as it's Sunday, what the arguments would be

747
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 1: from his camp to keep himself and his staff around

748
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: another year. First, obviously COVID COVID COVID, and so we

749
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: had a non winnable situation this year. We had the

750
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Speaker 1: schedule set up like we wanted it, had a couple

751
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: of out of conference games to tune up, and then

752
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: we were going to dive into conference play ease our

753
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: toe in there. Got a new offensive coordinator. You told

754
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: me I needed to make changes. I made changes, then

755
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: they took spring from us, and the changes haven't taken

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00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: root yet. And by the way, if I need to

757
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: sell you on the fact that the players still believe

758
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: in me, need I run the name Gunner Stockton, buy

759
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: any of you? Five star quarterback just committed to me

760
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: out of the state of Georgia a couple of weeks ago.

761
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: There's our future. I got our offensive coordinator. Now I

762
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: got a quarterback. Just give me time. That would be

763
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Speaker 1: the argument, can you sell two and eight reasonably? Can

764
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: you sell two and eight? We were talking about this

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Speaker 1: in one of our editorial meetings the other day, and

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Speaker 1: you know, the general consensus was presented, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it was maybe Barton Simmons or I think

768
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: it was. Barton kind of made an interesting point and

769
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Speaker 1: it was this, yeah, you got general consensus, but what

770
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Speaker 1: if someone goes rogue? What if one of those athletic

771
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: directors goes rogue? And here's what he meant. I kind

772
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: of thought about it, and I said, what's That's a

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00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: good point. And it ties right into Shane's question. Here.

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Speaker 1: You could sit back and you could say, Okay, football

775
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: revenues are down, we can't be affording to buy out

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00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: the current staff and pay a new staff, and it

777
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: would look terrible even if we could afford it, cause

778
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: you know, other other players is are growing broke and

779
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: our football revenue is down, period, so we're trying to

780
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: pinch pennies here. Let's just wait until next year. You

781
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 1: could be like that and most people will. However, think

782
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: about it. If you're South Carolina. This is not Tier

783
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: one program. So in any normal year, if you're firing

784
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: your head coach, you kind of got to get in line,

785
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: and you gotta wait for the big boys to make

786
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: their move. If there's an opening at USC for example,

787
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: you know coaches are gonna choose Southern col over South

788
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: Carolina nine times out of ten. It's just the harsh

789
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: reality of the sport. So you got to kind of

790
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: wait for the big boys and then there's a pecking

791
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: order and eventually it's your turn. But see, in this year,

792
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: everyone could hit the freeze button. What if you go rogue.

793
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: What if you look around and say, wait a second,

794
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 1: cross your arms, and you say, we think we're gonna

795
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,919
Speaker 1: end up having to make this move anyway, why don't

796
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: we just swallow it? And if we take a short

797
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: term pr hit. That's fine, but everyone else is sitting still.

798
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: There are two entire conferences of coaches that are bored

799
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: out of their minds. They've just been sitting on their

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Speaker 1: hands for two months. And so there could be several

801
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: candidates that we could go for there, and we could

802
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: jump right to the front of the line. Because no

803
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: one else is firing anyone, this could be our one

804
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: opportunity to jump right to the front of the line.

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00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: Easier said than done, But it does raise an interesting question, Shane,

806
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Speaker 1: that I don't think we know the answer to. If

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00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: you have a two to eight disaster season for South

808
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Speaker 1: Carolina and those folks realize we're going to make this

809
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: move eventually anyway, No, it's not going to look great.

810
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: But right now, let's make the move because we could

811
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: jump right to the front of the line and have

812
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: our pick. As much as we'll ever have our pick

813
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: of qualified candidates out there, we'll never have this situation

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Speaker 1: arise again. What most people see as an insurmountable hurdle,

815
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: let's turn it into an opportunity for us. Wouldn't be crazy,

816
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. I don't think that would be crazy.

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Speaker 1: All fingers crossed that it doesn't happen, because, as you

818
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: guys know, I like will must jam, so I hope

819
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. But Shane's the one who mentioned it,

820
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Speaker 1: not me, coach. Okay, let's close it up with this.

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Speaker 1: So last week I tweeted it out, I talked about

822
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: it on the Late Kick podcast, and I talked about

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00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: it here too. I said, there are several metrics that

824
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: we watch here at this company to gauge how much

825
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: our product is growing. One of those mini metrics are

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00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 1: five star reviews and written reviews on the podcast feed

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Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts. So the Late Kick podcast, what we

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Speaker 1: do there is we take the feed from Latekick Live,

829
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Speaker 1: so you're watching it right now maybe on YouTube. Well

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00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: the audio of this show it's available the next day

831
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: via podcast if you want to listen to it that way.

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Speaker 1: I've also been doing one per week mail bag format

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00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: show that's just Q and A. We don't put it

834
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: on the YouTube channel, so it's only there in the

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Speaker 1: podcast feed, and that's the Late Kick Extra podcast. But

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Speaker 1: I said to you last week, if you guys get

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Speaker 1: us to five hundred five star reviews, we are going

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Speaker 1: to three nights per week for Latekick Live. Right now,

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Speaker 1: it's Sunday Thursday. I said, we're going Sunday Tuesday Thursday,

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00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: and if you get us five hundred five star reviews,

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00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: we're going to add a second Late Kick Extra mail

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00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: Bag edition per week, which translation would give you a

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00:41:55,719 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: show every day Monday through Friday, essentially. And I underestimate

844
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: you so much because I told Tani and I told

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Speaker 1: a couple of our production guys. I said, we're going

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00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: to get there now. It probably be a couple of

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00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: weeks from now. No, it was a couple of days.

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Speaker 1: It was about forty eight hours and we just rocketed

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Speaker 1: right past five hundred five star reviews. So we're there.

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Speaker 1: So you have put it in motion. We are going

851
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Speaker 1: to three nights a week. The only thing right now

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Speaker 1: is I am here in Georgia because we had a

853
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: death in the family, so I am not going to

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Speaker 1: be back in Nashville until later this week. We'll still

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Speaker 1: So you're about to get a literal ton of college

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Speaker 1: of in the normal studio, but circumstances arose and we

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Speaker 1: you are, thank you for watching, thank you for listening.

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Speaker 1: For director Colin. For our podcast, guys, I'm Josh Paid.

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Speaker 1: Have a great, safe week, and God bless